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_ . " "' ^ ~ I johnl.miliek. [proprietors. in Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. (i*w?k.grist, ' ' sam'l w. melton, j ^ ( >. . '- , VOL. 2. YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JLTLY 17, 1856. * NO. 29.f * Sdfd |]octrn. "NO." There's a word very short, bat decided anil plain, And speaks to the purpose at once ; Not a child bat its meaning can quickly explain, ; Yet oft 'tis too hard to pronounce; What a world of vexation and trouble 'twould spare, i What pleasure and pence 'twould bestow, If we turned when temptation would lure and en-, snare, And firmly repulse it with "Xu !"' When the Idler would tempt us with trifles and play, j To waste the bright moments so dear ; When the scoffer unholy our faith would gainsay, , And mock at the Word we revere; When deception, and falsehood, and guile would ; invite, And fleeting enjoyments bestow, Never palter with truth for a transient delight, - . . . .1 : u.? ?.v.? t" DUC CUCCK UIC ut'51 I1U|>UISC ..>1.. ..v. In the morning of life, in maturity's day, Whatever the cares that engage. Be the precepts of virtue our guide and our stay. Our solace from youth unto age! Thus the heart shall ne'er waver, no matter how tried, But firmness and constancy show, Anfl when passion or folly would draw us aside, We'dspuru the seducer with "Mo." %3tou} of Ileal life/ From Arthur's IIou.c Magazine. LITTLE L ISZIE. "If thoy wouldn't let him have it!" said j Mrs. Leslie, weeping. ? (.), it' they wouldn't j sell him liquor, tliere'd be uo trouble ! lie's j one of the best men when lie doesn't drink, lie Devcr brings liquor in to the house ; and I he tries hard enough, I know, to keep sober, ! but he cannot pass Jcnks' tavern." Mrs. Leslie was talking with a sympa-; thizing neighbor, who responded by saying, j that she wished the tavern would burn down, j and that, fur her part, she didu't feel any) too good to apply fire to the place herself.? i Mrs. Leslie sighed, and wiped away the j tears with her cheeked apron. "It is hard, indeed, it is," she murmured, j "to see a man like Jenks growing richer> and richer every day out of the earnings of poor working men, whose families arc in i want of bread. For every sixpence that goes over his counter, someor.e is made poorer? ! to some heart is given a throb of pain." "It's a dowuright shnme!" exclaimed the i neighbor, iudignantly. "If I had my way with the lazy good-for-nothing fellow, I'd see that he did something useful, if it was to break stone on the road. Were it my bus-' band, instead of yours, that he enticed into his bar, depend on't, he'd get himself into trouble." While this conversation was going on, a j little girl not over tcu years of age, sat listening attentively. After awhile, she went quietly from the -room, and throwing her apron over her head, took her way, unobserved. by her mother, down the road. Where was Lizzie going ' There was a purpose in her mind?she had started on a mission. "O, if they wouldn't seil him liquor!" These earnest, tearful words of her mother had tilled her thoughts. If Mr. Jenks wouldn't sell her father anything to drink, "there would be no more trouble." How simple, how direct the remedy. She would go to Mr. Jenks, and ask him not to let foer father have any more liquor, and then all would be well again. Artless, innocent child! and this was her mission. The tavern kept by .Jenks, the laziest man in Milanville?he was tuo lazy to work, and rtirmf.iro. went to taveru-keoiiinc?stood nearly a quarter of a mile from the poor tenemcut occupied by the Leslies. Toward this point, under a hot, sultry sun, little Lizzie made her way, her mind so tilled with its purpose, that she was uncouscious of heart or fatigue. Not Ions before, a traveler alighted at the tavero. After giving directions to have his horse fed, he entered the bar-room, and went up to where Jenks stood, behind tiie counter. ' Have something to drink?" inquired the landlord. "I'll take a glass of water, if you please." .Jenks could not hide the indifference at once felt towards the stranger. Very deliberately he set a pitcher and a glass upon the counter, and then turned partly away. The stranger poured out a full glass of water, and drank it off with an air of satisfaction. "Good water, that of yours, landlord," said he. "Isit?" was returned, somewhat uncourteously. "I call it good water, don't you?" "Never drink water by itself." As Jenks said this, he winked to one of his good customers, who was lounging in the bar. "Jn fact, it's so long since I drank any waterthat I forget lnw it tastes. Don't you, Leslie?" The man to whom this was addressed, was not so far lost to shame as Jenks. 11c blushed and looked confused, as he replied: "It might be better t*??r some of us if we had not lost our relish for pure water." "A true word spoken, my friend!" said the stranger, turning to the man, whose swollen visage anil patched, threadbare garments, too plainly told the sR>ry of his sad life. "Water, pure water, bright water; that is my motto. It never swells the face nor inflames the eyes, nor mars the countenance. Its attendants are health, thrift and happiness. It takes not away the children's bread, nor the toiling wife's garments. Water!?it is one ot (lod s chicfost blessings! Our friend, the landlord here, savs lie lias forgotten how it tastes; and you have lost all relish for the refreshing draught! Ah, this is a sad confession?one which the angels might weep to hear." There were two or three customers in the bar besides Leslie, to whom this was addressed; and all of tliem?in spitoof the landlord's angry and suecriug couutenauce? treated the stranger with atteutiou and respect. Seeing this, Jeuks could not restrain himself; so, coming from behind his bar, he * ; - t*V if . . . advanced to his side, and laying his hand quite rudely on his shoulder, said, in a peremptory manner: "i^cc here, my friend ! If you are about making a temperance lecture, you can adjourn to the Town Hall, or the Methodist Chapel." The stranger moved aside a pace or two, so that the hand of Jenks might fall from his persou, aud then said mildly : "There must be something wrong here, if a man may not speak in praise of water, without giving offence." "I said you could adjourn your lecture!" The landlord's face was now fiery red, and he spoke with insolence aud passion. "(), well, as you arc president of the meeting, I suppose we must let you exercise an arbitrary puwerof jtulgmeut," said the stranger, good-humorcdly. "I didn't think anyone bad so strong a dislike for water as to consider its praise an insult." . M l i 1 !..t. ill4l At tins moment a ciiuu sreppeu miu mu bav-room. Her little face was Hushed, and great beads of perspiration were slowly moving down her crimson checks. Ilerstop was elastic, her manner earnest, aud her large, dark eyes bright with an eager purpose.? She glanced neither to the right nor left, but walking up to the landlord, lifted to lumber sweet young face, aud said, in tones that thrilled every heart hut his : "Please, Mr. Jenks, "don't sell papa anymore liquor!" "Off home with you, this instant!" exclaimed Jenks, the crimson of his face deepcuing to a dark purple. As lie spoke, lie advanced toward the child, with his hand up-lifted in a threatening attitude. "Please don't, Mr. Jenks." persisted the child, not moving from where she stood, nor taking her eyes frosu the landlord's countenance. "Mother says, if you wouldn't sell him liquor, there'd be no trouble. He's kind and good to us all, wheu ho doesn't drink." "Off, I say !" shouted Jenks, now maddened beyond self-control; and his hand was about descending upon the little one, when the stranger caught her in his arms, exclaiming, as he did so, with deep emotion: "God bless the child! No, no, precious ' ' > . i j- _ iin i one lie auueu, "uou t icar mm. i mu for your father?plead for your home. Your petitiou must prevail! He cannot say nay to one of the little ones, whose angels do always behold the face of their Father in Heaven. Ciod bless the child !" added the stranger, in a choking voice. "0, that the father, for whom she has come on this touching errand, were present now ! If there were any thing of manhood yet left in his uaturc. this would awaken it froiu its palsied sleep." "I'apa! I), papa! now cried the child, stretching forth her hands. In the next moment - lie was clinging to the breast of her father, who, with his arms clasped tightly around her, >tood weeping and mingling his tears with those now raining from the little one's eyes. What an oppressive stillness pervaded I that room! denies stood subdued and bewildered. his state of mental cnufu.-ioti scarcely enabling him to comprehend the full import of the scene j the stranger looked on wotideringly, yet deeply affected. Quietly j and with moist eyes, the two or three drinkj ing customers, who had been laughing in the | bar, went stealthily out; and the landlord, the stranger, and the father and his child. : wore left the only inmates of the room. ' Come, lii/./.io, dear! This is no place for us," said Leslie, breaking the deep silence. We'll go home." And the unhappy inebriate took his child I by the hand, and led her towards the door. I>ut the little one held hack. ' Wait, papa, wait,"she said. '-He hasn't promised yet. <1 wish lie would promise!" I ?-i? !>... I 1 lie stranger. "Promise!" said .Leslie, in a stern, yel j solemn voiee, as lie turned and fixed Lis j eyes upon the landlord, j "If I do promise, I'll keep it!" returned 1 .Tenks, in a threatening tone, as he returni cd the gaze of Leslie. "Then, for (Jod s sake, ^/'ownse!' exi claimed Leslie, in a half-despairing voice, J Itit'J I hi "l>e it so! May I he cursed, if ever T sell j you a drop of drink at this bar, while 1 am j landlord of the -Stag and Hounds !' " Jmil-:; 1 spoke with an angry emphasis. lod he thanked!" murmured the pool ! drunkard, as lie led his child away. "(!oi j he thanked! there is hope for me yet." ! llardly had the motln-r of Lizzie missci I her child, ere she entered, leading her lathe: by the hand. "O, mother!" she exclaimed, with a j?u little countenance, and in a voice of exulta tiun, "Mr. Jenkshas promised." "Premised what!'" I lope sprung up ii | her heart, on wild and fluttering wings, he) 1 face flushed and then grew deadly pale.? She sat panting for a reply. "That he would never sell me anothc glass of liquor, said her husband." A pair of thin, white hands were cluspei quickly together, an ashen lace was turnci upwards, tearless eyes looked their thankful ness to Heaven. I "There is lu?pe yet, Kllen," said Leslie "Hope, hope ! And O, Edward, yui have said the word." ' IIojic, through our child. Tnnoccuei [ has prevailed over vice and cruelty. ?Slu came to the strong, evil, passionate man, am : in her weakness and innocence, prcvailci over Iiiin. I.Jod made her fearless and elu ! rjucnt.'' A year afterwards, a stranger came agaii I that way, and stopped at the '-Stag am Hounds." As before, Jenks was behind hi well filled bar, and drinking customers cam and went in numbers.?Jenks did not re | eoirni/.e him until lie called for water, am j drank a lull tumbler of the pure liquor will a hearty zest. Then he knew him, but feign ed to be ignorant of his identity. The strail ger made 110 reference to the scene he ba< | witnessed there a twelvemonth before, bu lingered in the bar for most of the day, closely observing every otic that came to drink. Leslie was not among the number. "What has become of the man and the ! little girl that T saw here, at my last visit to Milanvillc?" said the stranger, speaking at i last to denies. "Gone to the devil, for all T care," was I the landlord's rude answer, as he turned off j from his fjuestioner. ' For all you care, no doubt," said the stranger to himself. "Men often speak their real thoughts in a passion." "Do you see that little white cottage away off there, just at the edge of the wood ! Two i tall poplars stand in front." j Thus spoke to the stranger one who had j heard him address the landlord. "I do. What of it?" lie answered. "The man you asked for lives there." I "Indeed!" "And wha>is more, if lie keep on as he | lias beguiif the cottage will be all his own in another year. Jenks, here, doesn't feel any j good blood for him, as you may well believe. | A poor man's prosperity is regarded as so ! much loss to him. Leslie is a good mechanic?one of the best in Miluuville. lie can earn twelve dullars a week, year in and year : out. Two hundred dollars he lias already ' paid on his cottage; and as he is that much j richer, Jenks thinks himself so much poorer i ?for all this surplus and more, too, would ; have gone into his till, if Leslie had not quit drinking." "Alii 1 see; well, did Leslie, as you call j him, ever try to get a uniik here, since me j landlord promised never to let him have another drop ?" ! ''Twice, to tny knowledge." j ''And he refused him?" j "Yes. if you remember, he s.<id, in his i anger, "J/oy I he cnrml, if I sell him anuthjcrdj-op." remember it very well." | "That saved poor Leslie. .Tenks is superstitious in some things. He wanted to get I his custom again?for its well worth having 1 ?and he was actually handing him the bottle one day, when I saw it, and reminded him of his self-imprecation, lie hesitated, looked frightened, withdrew the bottle from I the counter, and then, with curses, du.vc ; Leslie from his bar-room, threatening, at the j same time to horsewhip him if he ever set a I foot over his threshold again." "Poor drunkards!" mused the stranger, ' as lie rude past the neat cottage of the ro: formed man a couple of hours afterwards.? ' "As the case now stands, you are only saved j as by tire. All law, all protection, is on the side of those who are engaged in enticing you to sin, and destroying your body and soul. In their evil work, they have free course. Put for y?>u, unhappy wretches, after tlu-y have robbed you of worldly goods, | and even manhood itself, are provided pris! cms and pauper homes! and for your children" ?a dark shadow swept over the stranger's j face, and a shudder went through his frame. "Can it be a Christian country in which I i live, and such things darken the very sun at noonday ?" he added, as he. sprung his horse ; into a gallop, and rode swiftly onwardj Select MlisccKaiu). i .. - _ ... NEGRO SLAVERY THE BASIS. When Mr. Mc Puttie, a few years since, ! | made the declaration that ''.slavery was the ' corner stone of our republican edifice," it was sneered at as too absurd to merit a reply, and except by the most benighted and dilapi dated portion of the federal press, which kept repealing it for years to show the utter depravity of democratic politicians, it was i pa.-sed by as one of those flights of rhetorical ' ) display more remarkable for boldness and brilliancy than for truth or philosophy, which sometimes distinguished that eloquent ora! tor and gallant gentleman. Hut this re! mark expressed a truth of t:ansccndant im1 portancc, and the time is not distant when ' | tlie most stupid and most bigoted among us i will however reluctantly, admit it. Jt is ' ; true, that under ordinary circumstances it i j might require a considerable time for such ' a truth to penetrate the mind of the millions, ' , but wo are rapidly drifting to a crisis on this 1 momentous slavery question, and when the 5 truth? the hard, solid, iron truth?can alone save us from fri'ditful calamities. Indeed, r the masses, even those of the .North, are 1 ready to accept it any time, for instinct is j after all, a more infallible guide than rca' son, and as abolitionism is alone found ar uiongtlie educated portion of the people, and j such a tiling as an abolitionist among the ; working classes of the North rarely known, - so the true relation of the races or so called ? slavery will be accepted by them as the nort i Dial condition of society, for it accords with r tlic-ir iiK-tinc-ts a?: well as common sense. "j Democracy, in ilie true American sense, is equality?equality of rights ami equality 1 of duties for all those whom (tod has ereai ted equal. All who belong to the species ' or race have common capacities, wants, iu1 stinols, tendencies, and it is therefore a sclf" evident truth, as propounded by deilerson, I that they should have the same privileges and he held to the same responsibilities.? ' One man may be born with more mental capacity than another, as everybody sees they p 'arc in their physical attributes, and oducie tiuii?mental exercise?or cultivation may 1 i produce or result in wide and extreme variu1 ! tions, not only in their intellectual powers, " but in the moral habitudes, their sensibilities, their tastes, manners, &C. l>ut these :i things are all accidental, the fortune or inis.1 fortune of the individual, and with wliici s J governments or men's political rights and e ' duties have no connection. The great foun ; dntioti of eternal law, fixed by the hand of the 1 i Almighty?that those created alike, and \ j therefore designed for like purposes, shall - enjoy the same duties is all that routes witli in its scope; thus a true and legitimate gov1 eminent, securing this natural equality to t all its citizens, leaves every thing beyond to the will of the individual, to ascend or descend in the social scale just as his industry, talents or moral worth may be estimated by his fellows. Throughout the broad domain of animated being eachs pccies has its specific uses; its purpose, its design, and in the more elevated?the human creation?its mission, written in its structure by the finger of the Almighty, and in a language too legible to be mistaken a moment. Our experience, our common sense, our reason as well as our instincts, impel us to treat woman as woman, having with a different organism different wants, tendencies, in short, a different nature, which for her happiness as well as our own must be recognized and must be acted on in order to preserve the moral health, in-i i ihn ,>f snoi/Ov Sr> trm in respect to childhood?to force the infant to live out the life of the half grown, or the latter to act as if they had the capacities of the adult, would not only be wrong, sinful, impious, hut absurd and utterly destructive of social order, indeed, of very social existence. So, too, in respect to the inferior creation?our domestic animals?each species has its own specific nature, specific j wants, specific purposes, and its well being j as well us our own demand that they be I treated accordingly. The natural relation ! existing between individuals of the species | is equality, sameness?for though in our ! own race we see great variations, these are j all the result of accident, of chance, of ; innumerable contrivances, and which in Eu! rope actually transforms the only inferior ! element of the population (royalty) into this | bogus, bastard or accidental superiority. Now, were we to violate this great foundation law that underlies our institutions, our social as well as our political edifice, were we to force men and women and children, I or try to force them to vote, to have a voice j in the government of society?to manifest equal ear. jitics, to fulfil common duties? where would this end, this monstrous social contradiction and absurdity terminate?? Why, of course in the total destruction of the community?I he universal debouchment of all that is true or good ; for the natural relation thus lost sight of, there would follow and only could fo'low, a social chaos.? : We have now nearly four millions of negroes : in our midst, and who must soon be ten or I . . Ml? fill 1 _ twenty minions. mcse negroes, except a mere handful whom imposture or misguided philanthropy has transformed into social outcasts, are now in a natural position?a normal condition, their true relation to the superior white man. If they were not here, I another inquiry might he presented; but ' they are, and always must remain here and are d(.'stilled to rapidly multiply here, and ! these arc the things we must reason 011.? These negroes do not rat// from us?there j is no variation in white and black?they are | specialities, and this same speciality pervades the entire being, as wide apart in a single hair or primordial atom, as in the color | of the skin ; in short, this negro is 11 widely ; different and vastly inferior species, and the existing relation, however defective in par j ticular.s, is a natural relation which springs i spontaneously from the necessities of human i existence. A single fact is sufficient to deI nioiistratc beyond doubt, or even the effecta| tion oi doubt, the perfect truth of this asser| tion. In all human experience there is no | instance where white men have propagated j then selves, or in other words, lived when in 1 this condition, and on the contrary, no single instance where negroes have propagated when out of this condition, or when thrust I into the position of white men, or so called i freedom. Now, nothing is plainer or less lnistakable than that the perversion of this relation ?the violation of this natural law of white mil cnKi.l'ill ii.'i f lull. lVMlv't. demoralize and destroy society, must debauch ; and corrupt it a thousand times over more j hopelessly than even that following a pcr| version of the true relations of the sexes, ! children, &c. Or in other words, the existing ; relations of the races?of the twenty millions of white men and three millions of negroes | ?is the basis, tlie corucr stone of our republican edifice, which supports the whole fabric of our civilization, and which, if porverj ted, and these twenty millions of white ] citizens degraded to a legal or forced level 1 with these subordinate negroes, then, of ! course, that natural equality among white men which constitutes American democracy must be corrupted and lost sight of, and our whole system sink into utter ruin ami desoi lation. True, the North, with no negroes among them, may escape this distraction, | but will they? Democrats must remember that they got their democracy from the South, ' that it was the Jeffersous and Mndisons who ! first promulgated and established its glori ous truths, and in spite of the efforts of the ' Hamilton? and Adams of the North, that it I was the Calhounsand Jaclcsons whosustaiinj ed and defended these uths?that even in i 1S40, when nearly the whole North layprosj Irate at the feet of a paper aristocracy, five Southern States were found faithful to the | cause of democratic equality ; in short NorJ them Democrats should know, that if "sla| very'* were overthrown, the (Jreeloys and I Seward? and Weeds and Tom Corwins would I be able to accomplish the object for which j their party has labored for half a century? ! to impose upon them a bogus or bastard Jloi nublieanisui. which, except in name, is little J I ' I if any better than monarchy itself. J Finally, if anything more were needed to I show the truth of Mr. McDuflie's deelara1 tion that slavery was the corner stone of our | republican editicc, or in other words, that I the natural relations of whites and negroes was the basis on which rested the natural rcdation or Democratic equality, of white men themselves, it is found in the fact no where on this earth, outside of our own land, where negroes arc admitted to a legal equality, is there legal equality among white men, or in other words, where negroes are "free" white men are slaves.?AW: York Tiny Book. if I ? f BLUE BEABD. This hugbenr of every nursery in Christendom wus no fabulous monster veiled in human form. He actually, lived, moved, and had a being in the fifteenth ceutury; not, however, as along-robed, turbaned Oriental, as the pictures wnich used to make our blood curdle, would lead us to thiuk. On an eminence which overlooks the little village of Champtoce, uear the Loire, stands the imposing ruin of an old feudal castle.? Its grey walls, bare and broken, rear themselves against the glorious sky; and auiid the tumbling turrets the bat and the owl beat their wings and shriek in their midnight revels. The superstitious peasantry avoid the neighborhood froui fear, and when the storm whistles and the wind nioan$7 tlicy imagine the sounds to be wails from the injured dead of the ruin. The road of the place is not a new feeling, but has existed among succeeding generations of peasantry since the reign of Charles the Seventh. It was at that time the dwelling of Gilles de Betze, a feudal baron, who, as he was then, and still is called, the "Barbc Bleu," was, 110 doubt, the original of our time-honored, or rather feared, Blue Beard*.- His deedsof blood, which were but the every day incidents of his life, made him the terror of the surrounding region. The bare mention of his name was enough to subdue the inosr rebellious urchin into submission; a no even the parents believed that, the winds wnich ! reached them by passing over his domain, were sulphur tainted. Well does the history or this man reveal the dark superstition of the fiftccnfh century, and also the impunity, with which one in high rank might commit, the most -revolting: n n " AHinoo 'mmiiicI limnonihr H.i llof-7 Iwirl r.non been in possession of imincnse estates and untold wealth. But by the most debasing excesses he not only squandered his fortune, but also ruined his constitution, that, while yet a young man, he bore the appearance of decrepitude and old age. He could not., however, consent to pay the penalty of his sin by becoming old before his time. In the blindness of his superstition be conceived the hope of reclaiming both health and wealth by the power of magic. Having heard of a famous Italian alchymist who had performed some great miracles by this art, he sent for him to the castle. The cunning magician at once read his man, and encouraged his hopes; he was, therefore, employed at a high price to undertake the work, and invited to make the lofty castle his home. The first act was winning back of health and vigor, without which | all other treasures are of little avail. Nuiu| berlcss were the arts he tried, and mysterious the preparations he made. The dark dungeons and secret subterranean passages beneath the castle were the scene of his work. Ilere the terrified peasantry imagined that the Italian made a compact with the Prince of Darkness, and sold the duped De Retz to him in compensation for his aid in restoring health. Among many nonsensical and harmj less experiments, were also some of a cruel j and abominable character. lie induced his infatuated employee to believe there existed I in the blood of infants a charm for restoring I youth and vigor. lie assured him that by j bathing daily in the blood of these innocents, i the pure young life which had so lately coursed through their tiny veins would be transferred to his own. The bloody baron did not shrink for one moment from the commission of the horried crime which this prescription rendered necessary. Tender infants were secretly stolen j or turciiiiy torn trom inetr parents, ana Kept ! in the dungeons of the castle till their blood ! was required. Tt is believed that not less ; than one hundred humble mothers were { thus deprived of their youngest born. This i fiend in human shape hired a magician but j not a murderer. That office he reserved for himself, nor did his savage nature shrink ! from the horrid work imposed. With his 1 own hand did he pierce the hearts of his ! affrighted little victims until there was blood ' sufficient to cover his emaciated body. This is one instance of the cruelty of De Iletz.? i Wc think very likely his wives shared the j f .to of the poor infants, and that the story of | Blue Beard in wide trousers, loose robe and j turban, was not exaggerated. ! But crime cannot always go unpunished, j liven then, when the rich ruled over the poor, justice and mercy triumphed at last.? The cries and entreaties of the heart broken ! people around his domains reached the cars [ of his superior, Jean Y. He was arrested I and brought before a tribunal of justice.? I lis palace was thrown open to the public j gaze, and its horrid dens and vaults were j swift witnesses against him. lie was found j guilty of murders,by scores, and after conj lessing many crimes, before unknown, he j was burnt at the stake in Nantes, 1410. This ! was the original of <'?luc Beard," and although more than four hundred years have i passed away since he paid the penally of his ! fvmnvs. the broken walls and iairired turrets still-stand as a memorial that the wicked shall not go unpunished. THE HUGHES TELEGRAPH. The following, from Life Illustrated will ! he read with much interest The progress ; of Telegraphing is the most nstouishing of anything of the present day. We hope some one will invent an impartial reporter: "This wonderful instrument, the invention of David B. Hughes, of Louisville, is now finished, and will be immediate ly placed i upon the line between this city and Phila! dclphia. These machines, so far as it has bceu possible to test them through a coil of 100 miles in length, have realized the most ! sanguine expectations of Mr. II. and his j friends, and there is no reason to doubt that i the invention will speedily work an entire revolution in telegraphing throughout the world. This invention may be called a printing press and telegraph instrument combined, for it prints all messages in plain Roman capitals, with unerring correctness, and fit an almost incredible rate of speed, avera. ging, in the ordinary dispatch of business, from 20,000 to 25,000 letters per hour, or about 85 words per minute, which is but little less than the average speed of human speech. The Hughes instrument clearly demonstrates the practicability of sending and receiving messages in opposite directions over the same wire at the same instant of time, and with the utmost ease, regularity, and certainty. "It will consequently require but one wire and one operator, at any given point, to send and receive as much business as cau be transmitted by the aid of 4 or 5 operators and an equal number of wires under the Morse system. Another equally important peculiarity connected with the Hughes invention is the undoubted fact that it will work perfectly in very long circuits, Ulld \l till "tlllUl I ?u~ ntiimnny in nil .f me aiuiospnere?ueiiiier mist, ram uui ."uun having any perceptible effect. ''Therefore, at seasons when the 3Ior.se and House instruments are utterly powerless, even in circuits of 50 miles, there is every reason to believe that the Hughes instrument will work reliably in circuits of 1,000 or 2,000 miles. The simplicity and durability of the new machine will compare favorably with the Morse, and is vastly superior in these respects to the House instrument," The patent has been sold to the American Telegraph Company, a new association, having its head quarters in New York City. IRISH PROVERBS. The proverb, as has been well said, embodies the wisdom of many and the wit of one. It is the quintessence of a people's experience and sagacity, colored by their wit and imagination. It knits up a universal law in a particular example, and forms an unfailing argument in the mouths of the people. Proverbs arc confined to no age or country, but arc often common to different languages and nations. Thus we have been interested in lookingover a collection of Irish proverbs to sec how many of them are similar in language or spirit to those used in this country. Thus among the people of Ulster a sly, knowing fellow is said to "know the butthered side of his bannock j" a rough but honest tneuci is sum to do "oettner nor he's likely, like a swinged cata good trouncing with a shillelagh is disguised as a "nibbing down with the oil of hazelof an inefficient man it is said "he will never set the Lagan on fire"them 'at gets the name of early lisiu' may lie all day." The equivalents of these are familiar to all New Engenders. But there are others which have a local coloring, and arc full of Irish wit. For instance?"A lazy man is a beggarman's brother;" of one who with good talents and prospects has thrown himself away in life, it is oddly but expressively said, "he was cut out for a gentleman, but the devil ran away with the patthernj" an eccentric person, when the eccentricity is not excessive, is $aid, oddly enough, to "want a square of being round ;" a flighty person is said to "have a bee in his bonnet.'^ The English maxim, "Happy is the wife who is married to a motherless son,"falls infinitely short in expressiveness of the Ulster rhyme? Of nil (lie ould women that ever I yaw. Sweet had luck to my motlier-in-liiw !" A man who anticipates his income is said "to eat the calf in the cow's belly." Of a niggardly, hard-fisted churl it is said that "it is as hard to draw a shilling out of his pocket, as to drag a cat out of a silk stocking by the tail." The Ulster proverb do not spare the fair sex. "Do like the women? say no, and take it," is a bad compliment to female sincerity. "Xixt after single, a good wife's best," is also a very equivocal recognition of the charms of matrimony. There is much good feeling, however, conveyed in another of these, popular*sayings, "It's niver lost that a friend gets." There is a proverbial phrase in use in Ulster, that has so curious an origin that we are tempted to copy Uic story? An article in which the cost of accessories far exceeds that of tho article itself or its nominal material, is said to he "like the limestone broth." An old school fanner whose family is just emerging into gentility, will apply this phrase to the ribbons or other trimmings of his daughter's bonnets, or to the furnishing of his wife's new parlor. The limestone broth was the device employed by a sly old borcntjh, or wandering mendicant, ; to secure a good supper without seeming to J ask it. Making his way info a plain but likeI !y cottage, lie beggea the good-wife to lend | him a small pot, and to permit him to cook his supper upon her tire. On her acceding to his request, he produced from his wallet two substantial pieces of freshly-cut limestone, which he laid carefully in the pot, and just covering them with water, placed tho pot ! upon the fire to boil. The good woman could ! not help asking"him what it was that he was I going to make, and was informed that it was j limestone broth. When the filing had proceeded for sometime, the beggnrman tasted the contents, and pronouncing the broth excellent, begged for a little salt to season it. By-and-bye, he suggested that all it wanted was a spoonful of meal to thicken it. Next ! came a petition for a slice or two of turnips ' and leeks, to give it a little substance ; and I in tho end a hint that it wouldn't he the worse I of a "knuckle of bacon," just to give it the j laste taste in the world of the flavor of the ! mate." The good woman who watched the i proceeding with the utmost interest, cheer' - i* i _f.l .11 i.1 __ , tally conipnea wun an inose successive re: quisitions; and when, at last, at tlic coneluj sion of the operation, she was invited to try | the limestone broth, she pronounced it''quite ! as good as any mate-broth she ever tasted in | all her life !" The application of the story : will be readily understood.?Portlaud Tran. i scri'j)(. ????" A lover, wishing to concentrate his ardor in one burst of passion, exclaimed : "0, Angelina Augusta, I feel toward you just like the burning bush that Moses saw?I'm all afire, but ain't consumed !" H?l? ^ ?3* Clean a brass kettle before using it, with salt and vinegar. ; > t ' " ? . .. * FOB KANSAS. * - - ; *.' - ' Dr. Gibbes?Pear Sir : I desire to announce through your paper that I will set out for Kansas on the first Monday in An* " ^ gust. All persons who design going with t, me, should meet tne in Columbia on that* day, at Hunt's Hotel, so that we may take f the railroad the next day. All monies from the different districts to be sent by me to their emigrants, should be forwarded to you or deposited in bank to my order by that . time. f Col. Payne, a pro-slavery member of our . * Kansas Legislature, writes mo that homes , and provisions arc provided for Southern emigrants to Kansas for a time, by the peopie of Missouti and of the Territoiy. AH ? f flnr.;.. ?n nmirarnffl ntiti n~U,nl - '< srtflrr*, may do so under the assurance that some provision will be made for theai. I will pay the necessary expenses of all> Iqiui f fide emigrants to the Territory, upon their depositing in my hands 875 each. For this * sum I will give them a receipt, and pay them the amount due, after defraying their ex- . penses to Kansas, so soon as we land. There ar&hundreds of young men in this ^ State who can go to Kansas, and were they to consult their own interest would do ik-r * ? When the present difficulties are'settlcd, far* .> will present a fine field for men of talenL; I energy and enterprise. Respectfully,.' J* M TVARREN D. WILKES. Anderson C. H., July 7, 4856. . ;s?lj OUR PROGRESSIVE A-Q-B^ We have seen no example more striking of the tendency of modern Americajfcideas . than is contained in the annexed extraeffrom. the Philadelphia Ledger: "Personal Rights Abused.?A few days ago the penitcutiary of Indiana.; was partially burnt down, and the convicts rehel jea in a nouy Dccausc tne legislature or tnat . ~ State having failed to elect a Superintendent, * . * the Governor had appointed one in his place. It was not that tho retiring Superintendent was particularly popular, .or that the one appointed was the reverse, but the ground ia- * Aa ken by tbe prisoners was that the Governor had no constitutional right to make the ap- ? jpL pointuient, and they, consequently, were not ? > bouud to obey; in fact, that they were in honor bound to stand out for their just rights and prerogatives. Whether they conceived ~ * that it was their duty to choose their own Superintendent, or that they were entitled to ^ their full liberty, we have not beard. "Truly we live iu an age of liberty and constitutional rights to some purpose. Tbe men who have defied all the laws of their i country consider that they are to be judge ^ "** 'and jury, and to decide what is law and how the State's prison is to be managed.*" The ^ J ; sense of injured rights so swells the bosoms of these proud, patriotic men, that they make efforts to liberate themselves from this tyrani ny which not all the love of personal free-.^ dom could awaken in them before, jt is i strange, but such is the fact; and a most, peculiar fact it is, having its good as'Well gs-. its ridiculous features, and characteristic of i the age in which we live. ' "It is, indeed, this kind of abuse of all vj just views of human rights which is one of the greatest dangers of the times. In-every college in the laud each sophomore finds out ,. that the discipline of the faculty is an Jn- ^ ? fringement on some of the rights t>f the studeuts, and forthwith they set up for therascl- j ves the right to decide how a college ought ' to be governed, how high ought to be the'* grade of each, and what amount of punishraeut ought to be inflicted in each case of disorder or disobedience, what regulations rmrrVil tn Via nVinrpf} find wlint. is tn V>fl flis. VUb'" w~, T ?^ carded from the college laws as unconstitutional." ? " n - Trial of Mr. Brooks.?Washinotov, July 8.?The trial of Mr. Brooks took place to-day, when Messrs. Butler, Benjamin Pearce, Foster, Toombs and Keitt were present. Mr. Sumner was absent from the city to \ * $ avoid a supbeena. Mr. Brooks regretted the absence of Mr. Sumner, as he desired to intorrogate him in regard to his evidence fore the House Committee. He then made *" a short speech, in which he look the ground that there were some offences where the law was inadequate to afford a remedy, and while he had a heart to feel and a hand to strike he would redress the wrongs of his political mother, and if necessary, would squander his means and endanger his life in her dei fence. ./ - ^ I lie tow bowed to the majesty of the law and would receive bis sentence. * ~ . ; jj Judge Crawfcrd forcbore comment, and * fined bira S800. Mr. Fillmore's Election Decided.? Yesterday we received a call from an old '76 Verraonter, who stated that he had had a vision, in which lie had foreseen the certain election of Millard Fillmore to the Presidency in November next. u Said ho, "You may think me a foolish old .. : man, but T know of what I speak. For the last t wenty years I have had a similar vision on the eve of the Presidential- elections? and never have I been mistaken. In 1844 II was a Clay man, but I cried before anybody else, in secret, for I knew that Henry Clay would be defeated; and I cell you now, .? -wit i r?.n Ml 1 itl a r> | (Hat .uniara l'Uimore win dc me next rmaI ident of these United States. They can't beat him, for Providence is on his side."? Just Fillmore's luck.?Lorkport Coiirirr, 2Sth i/ft. ' ? Wealthy Pauper.?Catherine Alberti, ! a befrgar and fortHne teller, died in Baleigh,... N". C , last week. On examinitfg'her effects ' S2,G00 in gold, silver and notes* was found, | together with evidences' xi her owning a plantation in Kentucky and ?20 shares of railroad stock. Around her body was a belt full of gold coin: BSl^fhc negro who killed Thos. Styron, in'Eagfield noticed two weeks ago in the Informer, has been acquitted by a court of Magistrates and Freeholders. ". i-1*- .'r ? ; ... i